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Title Die Legende von Paul und Paula = The legend of Paul and Paula / Icestorm International presents a DEFA Film ; a film by Heiner Carow
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
©1972

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (101 min., 35 sec.))
Series Online access with subscription: Kanopy (1 year streaming video)
Summary Author Ulrich Plenzdorf and director Heiner Carow winningly portray everyday life in East Berlin in a passionate, but star-crossed love story. Featuring the music of the East German cult rock band, The Pudhys, the film proved so popular that official media blackouts could not keep audiences away from this cult classic. Paul is unhappily married to a beautiful but ignorant woman who cheats on him. Paula, who has two children from different fathers, is in a relationship of convenience with a tire salesman. When Paula and Paul meet in a bar, they fall in love. Yet, Paul, who can never make up his mind, almost loses Paula, who blames herself when her child dies in an accident. Finally, Paul wins Paula back and their love becomes a legend in the neighborhood, intensified by a tragic twist. The most popular DEFA film ever, it is a film about longings, dreams and the pursuit of individual freedom
Analysis Foreign Language Film
German Studies
Movies
Notes In Process Record
Title from title frames
Credits Directed by Heiner Carow ; screenplay, Ulrich Plenzdorf & Heiner Carow ; director of photography Juergen Brauer ; music, Peter Gotthardt
Performer Features: Winfried Glatzeder, Angelica Domrose, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare, Dietmar Richter-Reinick, Frank Schenk
Event Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1972
Notes In German with English subtitles
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Germany -- Drama
Adultery -- Germany -- Drama
Motion pictures, German.
Motion pictures, German.
Man-woman relationships.
Adultery.
Germany.
Genre/Form Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Romance
Form Streaming video
Author Carow, Heiner, 1929-1997, director, screenwriter.
Plenzdorf, Ulrich, 1934-2007, screenwriter.
Gotthardt, Peter, 1941- composer.
Domröse, Angelica, 1941- actor.
Glatzeder, Winfried, 1945- actor.
Wenzel, Heidemarie, 1945- actor.
Delmare, Fred, 1922-2009, actor.
Richter-Reinick, Dietmar, actor.
DEFA.
Kanopy (Firm)
Other Titles Legend of Paul and Paula